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Martin H. Franzmann
1907 - 1976 Person Name: Martin H. Franzmann, 1907- Author of "O Fearful Place, Where He Who Knows Our Heart" in Worship Supplement Born: January 29, 1907, Lake City, Minnesota.
Died: March 28, 1976, Cambridge, England.
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Richard Hillert
1923 - 2010 Person Name: Richard Hillert, 1923- Composer of "MISSION" in Worship Supplement Richard Hillert was born in Granton, Clark County, Wis., on March 14, 1923. There he attended parochial and public schools and later enrolled at Concordia Teachers College (now Concordia University Chicago), River Forest, where he received the Bachelor of Science degree in Education. He served as teacher and music director for parishes in St. Louis, Mo., Wausau, Wis., and Chicago and Westchester, Ill. He received both the Master of Music and the Doctor of Music degrees in composition from Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. His teachers included Matthew Nathaniel Lundquist, Anthony Donato, Alan Stout, Arrand Parsons, Emil Nolte, and John Ohl. He studied composition with the Italian composer, Goffredo Petrassi, at Aaron Copland’s Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, Mass.
Richard Hillert was a noted Lutheran composer. He was Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at Concordia University Chicago, River Forest, Ill. He was best known for his work as a composer and teacher of composition. Among his most frequently performed liturgical works for congregation is Worthy Is Christ, with its antiphon, “This is the Feast of Victory” which was written as an alternate Song of Praise for inclusion in Setting One of the Holy Communion in Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) and Lutheran Worship (1982). "This is the Feast" is now widely published in more than 20 recent worship books of many denominations, most recently in Lutheran Service Book (2006) and Evangelical Lutheran Worship (2006). Other major liturgical works include a setting of Evening Prayer (1984) and a Eucharistic Festival Liturgy (1983), which was first performed at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. He wrote liturgical pieces and hymns and served as music editor for Worship Supplement(1969) and Lutheran Book of Worship (1978). His compositions and publications include an array of pieces of liturgical music for congregation, choral motets, hymns and hymn anthems, psalm settings and organ works, concertatos, and cantatas, including settings of The Christmas Story According to Saint Luke and The Passion According to Saint John. He edited eleven volumes of the Concordia Hymn Prelude Series.
Hillert's career as Professor of Music at Concordia (now Concordia University Chicago) spanned four decades, from 1959 to 1993. During this time he taught classes in music theory and composition, music literature, 20th century music, orchestration, keyboard instruction, comparative arts and liturgical worship. He served in various capacities in the music department, as chair in 1964-65 and from 1986–89, as coordinator of the Master of Church Music program, and as associate editor of the journal Church Music (1966–80).
Non-liturgical compositions include symphonic works for orchestra (Symphony in Three Movements, Variations for Orchestra, Suite for Strings), chamber works for small orchestra and ensembles (Alternations for Seven Instruments, Divertimento I and II) as well as many works for keyboard, instrumental solos and songs. The latter include Sonata for Piano (1961), a violin sonata, and two sonatas for flute and keyboard. Major organ works include Prelude and Toccata, Ricercata, Passacaglia on Innocent Sounds, Partita on Picardy, and Partita on Atkinson. There are also concert works with sacred texts, such as Five Canticles from the Exodus (1958), Te Deum for two pianos, percussion, and wind instruments (1962), The Alleluiatic Sequence (1980), and Seven Psalms of Grace for baritone solo and chamber orchestra (1998). Extended choral works, many written for Concordia’s Kapelle conducted by Thomas Gieschen, include the Cantata: "May God Bestow on Us His Grace" (1964), "Motet for the Day of Pentecost" for choir, vibraphone, and prepared electronic tape (written for the round-the-world tour in 1969), "Motet for the Time of Easter" for double choir, percussion, and harp (1971), and "Agnus Dei" for three choirs and percussion instruments (1974).
Richard Hillert authored numerous scholarly articles and reviews for the periodicals such as Church Music, CrossAccent, and Currents in Theology and Mission, and other professional books and journals. He received an honorary Doctor of Sacred Music degree from Valparaiso University, and honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from Concordia University at Seward, Nebraska, and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He was an honorary life member of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians. His former students throughout the land have careers as practicing church musicians, elementary and secondary school teachers, teachers in higher education, music editors and publishers, and composers.
Richard Hillert was married to Gloria Bonnin Hillert. They had three children: Kathryn Brewer, Virginia and Jonathan Hillert.
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Richard Hillert
William J. Danker
1914 - 2001 Person Name: William J. Danker, 1914- Author of "The Sending, Lord, Springs from Thy Yearning Heart" in Worship Supplement Danker was educated at Concordia College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri; Wheaton College (BA); the University of Chicago (MA); and the University of Heidelberg (DTheol, magna cum laude). After ordination, he pastored at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Harvard, Illinois (1937-42), and Trinity Lutheran Church, West Chicago, Illinois (1942-48). From 1948-55, he served as the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod’s first missionary to Japan. Upon return to America, he became a professor at Concordia Seminary, and directed the World Mission Institute. His works include:
Two Worlds or None—Rediscovering Missions (Concordia Publishing, 1964)
Profit for the Lord: Economic Activities in Moravian Missions and the Basel Mission Trading Company, with R. Pierce Beaver, 1971
Economic Activities in Support of Early Protestant Missions (Missionary Research Library, 1971)
More Than Healing: The Story of Kiyoko Matsuda (Concordia Publishing House, 1973)
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As the son of teachers, Rev. William J. Danker had a love of learning that wasn't surprising.
But Mr. Danker fused his constant quest for knowledge with his love of faith, becoming a Lutheran pastor who spent his life convincing people in power to help people in need.
During more than half a century of work in the Chicago area and around the world, Rev. Danker played the roles of pastor, missionary, author, professor and rebel, blending the skills of a CEO with the grass-roots work ethic of a store-front preacher.
Rev. Danker, 86, died Thursday, May 17, 2001in his home in Arlington, Va., of stroke-related complications.
He was born in Willow Creek, Minn., and his family moved from place to place when he was younger.
Rev. Danker graduated from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in 1937. He spent the next 11 years as a pastor in Harvard and West Chicago.
Then in 1948, in what his family says he considered his proudest professional accomplishment, he was selected by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, to be the first Lutheran missionary to post-war Japan.
He and his family lived in Japan for eight years and he founded the Japan Lutheran Church, which still exists.
When he returned in 1956, he became professor of missionlogy at his alma mater, Concordia Seminary.
His tenure there was cut short in 1973 when he was part of a group of 50 faculty members who were forced out of their posts by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which took issue with the school's teaching of a more liberal interpretation of the Bible.
The battle led to the formation of Christ Seminary-Seminex, where Rev. Danker taught until 1983, and to the creation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, a split Frederick Danker says his brother always hoped would be mended.
In 1983 Rev. Danker moved to Chicago to teach classes in missions and world hunger at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. While there, he and his wife also founded the Center for World Christian Interaction, for which they were both honored with an award in 1994.
--articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-05-22/ (excerpts)
William J. Danker
